On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 07:45:02AM -0500, Alan Cox wrote:> > Definitely disagree with that. I'd like to see the conference somewhere> else different this time - perhaps Czech Republic, or somewhere else more> easterly and Linux active (or even Finland...)>

Understand that one of the feedback that I get from the keepers of thecorporate travel budgets is that money for sending employees to exoticlocations is finite --- which is why we haven't tried pairing thekernel summit with linux.conf.au. Cambridge works out because thereare relatively cheap flights to Amsterdam and then you can take acheap Ryan Air flight to Stanisted. Still, the fact that it isn'tpaired with another conference means that we are getting someexpressions of unhappiness from other Kernel Summit stakeholders.It's for that reason that (a) I'm trying to line up some folks whomight be interested in trying to put together a relatively small,2-day technical conference after the Kernel Summit, which canhopefully serve as a seed for something like OLS and LCA in UK/Europe,and (b) I've told folks that the moving it away from Cambridge is aone-time experiment, after which point we will re-evaluate.

I understand that if it were only up to us developers, we'd want tohave the conference in Honolulu, or perhaps in Australia or NewZeland. Unfortunately there are other stakeholers and other financialrealities involved.

> > While we're at it it would be nice to get rid of all that usenix> > Well if you want to organise and fund it yourself 8)

The sponsors help pay for the conference venue, as well as travelscholoarships for those people who don't have corporate affiliations,or whose companies refuse to pay their travel, and who were importantthat they be there. One of my concerns is if we have too many kerneldevelopers where their employes refuse to pay travel, we won't haveenough travel scholoarship money.